After the Second World War, there emerged a new generation of composers, who sought to stretch the boundaries of music history, and find new and exciting styles and forms. Browse our sheet music and scores, take a look at our Modern Classical Music, and explore the wide world of contemporary music with Stretta Music today!
Dodecaphony or Serialism is the use of the twelve semi-tones as the harmonic and structural basis, rather than the traditional harmonic key structure which governed classical music until the turn of the twentieth century. Arnold Schoenberg was the father of twelve-tone composition in the 1930s. Moving into the post-war era, all dodecaphonic or serial musical parameters, including note lengths, dynamics and even timbres were set in rows. After 1948, the Darmstadt “holiday courses” became the centre of Dodecaphony or Serialism for almost a decade. Despite the mathematical and logical basis, twelve-tone composition still produced many highly emotional works such as Luigi Nono’s Il Canto sospeso.
As the technical and electronic possibilities continued to grow and thrive after the war, the first studio solely dedicated to electronic music was founded in Cologne in 1951 by Herbert Eimert. Important electronic music composers were Edgar Varese, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ernst Krenek, Maurice Kagel, Luciano Berio and Iannis Xenakis, who was also an assistant to the architect Le Corbusier.
Aleatoric comes from the Latin “alea”, meaning dice. Aleatoric composition leaves elements of the music to chance. The American composer John Cage was the first to experiment with aleatoric music, and many others followed, in particular K. Stockhausen, P. Boulez, W. Lutosławski.
Soundscape composition plays with sense and emotion, it uses long drawn musical landscapes to give the listener time to recognise and experience the music in a whole new way. The most important compositions include Atmosphères and Lontano by György Ligeti. Other works of this type were created by Luigi Nono, Krzysztof Penderecki, Iannis Xenakis.
Minimalism also came to Europe from the USA. Minimalism uses repetitive, wide blocks of sound, without strong contrasts or dramatic changes. It is in the repetition, with gradual, small changes, that the minimalist effect is achieved. The pioneers of minimalism in the 1960s were American composers Philip Glass, John Adams, Le Monte Young, Terry Riley and Steve Reich. They were followed in Europe by Henryk Górecki and Arvo Pärt.
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Music score
Item no.: 737697
for: Bass Voice a Cappella
Book
Item no.: 338080
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
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for: Voice (tenor), piano
Piano reduction
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for: 2 Violinen, (Violine, VA), Streicher, SYNTHESIZER
Study score
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for: Voice (mezzo-soprano), percussion, orchestra
Study score
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for: Piano
Item no.: 153708
for: Percussion instruments
Score
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for: Voice, piano
Score
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for: Orchestra
Study score
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for: 3 Soprano Voices, Alto Voice and 2 Drums
Book
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for: 8 voices (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Study score
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for: Mezzosopran solo, Bariton solo, Klavier
Singpartitur, Spielpartitur
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for: Oboe, bassoon, piano
Piano score, parts
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for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 1012288
for: String instrument
Book (softcover)
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for: Voice (soprano), instruments
Score
Item no.: 665096
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Piano score
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for: Flute
Score
Item no.: 433884
for: Double bass, piano
Ensemble score
Item no.: 381451
for: Mixed ensemble (6 voices)
Score
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for: Violin, piano
Ensemble score
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for: 2 flutes (duet)
Score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Viola, cello, double bass
Ensemble score
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for: Trumpet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 382924
for six voices
for: 6 voices
Score
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for: Violin, double bass
Score, part
Item no.: 604544
for: Sopran solo, Kontrabass
Spielpartitur, Singpartitur
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for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 282888
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Guitar
Music score
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for: Flute, clarinet, piano
Set of parts
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: GES-M (BAR) ENSEMBLE
Study score
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for: Flute, clarinet (B-flat), bassoon, 2 violins, viola, cello (septet)
Score
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
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for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Clarinet
Score
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for: Piano
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for: Clarinet
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for: Flute [violin], piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Violin, orchestra
Study score
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for: Oboe, piano
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for: Accordion, piano
Score
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for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
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